News of the apparitions had spread far beyond Bijakovici, and several thousand people gathered on the hill. These people came from many villages in the area - Miletina, Citluk, Ljubuski, and from even greater distances.
Vicka reports: On the third day, we went up Podbrdo again. My grandmother told me to bring Holy water with me. She told me that when Our Lady comes, I should use the Holy water and to make the sign of the Cross. When Our Lady arrived, I used the Holy Water and said, If you are Our Lady stay with us and if you are not, you better go away. Our Lady just smiled. I could see the drops of Holy water vanishing in the air. That was a sign, a sure sign for us, that it really was Our Lady.
Jakov, in an interview with Fr. Jozo on June 28, 1981, said: We asked, Dear Our Lady, why have you come to us? She said, I have come because there are many believers here! Then she said that all are to be at peace, that all are to be reconciled.
This apparition lasted 30 minutes. Afterwards, the children and the people began to leave the hillside. Marija walked toward the village with some women and suddenly Our Lady reappeared; Marija dropped to her knees. Later, Marija said she had seen a bare cross, formed of all colors of the rainbow but without a corpus, and in front of the cross was Our Lady, in tears, urging: Peace, peace, only peace. Reconcile yourselves. Peace must take place between God and man and between men. Her final words were: Go in God's peace.